Word: leitmotifs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wingers. Jon asks to be put in the "middle" lines so that he can pick off a few "niggers, spics, Jews, and other commies" while he is shooting "the chinks." Vietnam, and the ways in which it has changed and bedeviled young people, runs through this film like a leitmotif...
...Steiner's music cannot be overlooked. In the new six-channel stereo version, this granddaddy of all epic films scores towers higher above its descendants than ever. Discovering the nuances of orchestration is worth the price of admission; even the Wagnerian use of leitmotif succeeds in furthering the picture's emotional impact...
...Siegfried Idyll. For the first time there was an attempt to provide the music with a decent amount of expression, dynamic contrast, and formal shape. Thrown into relief by the work's reduced instrumentation, the winds--except for the French horns--showed themselves capable of an incisive handing of leitmotif and at times produced a positively luscious ensemble sonority...
Ezra Laderman's original score makes the pictures literally cohere, flow together, and progress. For the childhood melancholies, he has devised a haunting leitmotif that occurs again and again to enhance the glory and meaning of later triumphs...
...hero, and a perfect fit to the Welles genius. The music and the starkness of black-and-white photography are well used to add to the general effect. Organ and percussion set a perpetual sombre undertone, in the way the guitar background of Mr. Arkadin presented a leitmotif...